Nugæ Litterariae: Or, Brief Essays on Literary, Social, and Other ThemesRoberts brothers, 1896 - 344 páginas |
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... Writer Matter - of - Fact Men The Secret of Literary Success A Goodly Heritage May One Laugh at His Own Jokes ? What is Truth to Nature ? 30 Proving Too Much . Politeness Pays . Ill - Used Men 34 Overcoming a Nickname . 36 Speculation ...
... Writer Matter - of - Fact Men The Secret of Literary Success A Goodly Heritage May One Laugh at His Own Jokes ? What is Truth to Nature ? 30 Proving Too Much . Politeness Pays . Ill - Used Men 34 Overcoming a Nickname . 36 Speculation ...
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... writer , speaking of the late Thomas J. Potter , who as general manager of the Union Pacific Railway received an annual salary of $ 40,000 , says that he began his career twenty - five years ago as a lineman on an Iowa railway at $ 45 ...
... writer , speaking of the late Thomas J. Potter , who as general manager of the Union Pacific Railway received an annual salary of $ 40,000 , says that he began his career twenty - five years ago as a lineman on an Iowa railway at $ 45 ...
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... writer refers , when he says , that with the exception of a young one , there is nothing in the world so charming as an old woman . We agree with him , only , we would omit the exception , - provided she is a genuine old woman , without ...
... writer refers , when he says , that with the exception of a young one , there is nothing in the world so charming as an old woman . We agree with him , only , we would omit the exception , - provided she is a genuine old woman , without ...
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... writer , Henri - Frédéric Amiel , closes in his " Journal " some remarks on the purification of society from its corruptions , which resulted from the descent of that " scourge of God , " Genghis Khan , and his yellow , flat - nosed ...
... writer , Henri - Frédéric Amiel , closes in his " Journal " some remarks on the purification of society from its corruptions , which resulted from the descent of that " scourge of God , " Genghis Khan , and his yellow , flat - nosed ...
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... writers Praise . betray in our day is one of the most offensive features of literature . The excessive laudation which they bestow upon other authors for the sake of being paid back in kind , perhaps with compound interest , sickens the ...
... writers Praise . betray in our day is one of the most offensive features of literature . The excessive laudation which they bestow upon other authors for the sake of being paid back in kind , perhaps with compound interest , sickens the ...
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Página 42 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Página 212 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Página 223 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Página 318 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Página 138 - My Lord of Ely, when I was last in Holborn, I saw good strawberries in your garden there : I do beseech you send for some of them.
Página 148 - I do the very best I know how — the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Página 233 - Yea, but he hath a great charge of children ; as if it were an abatement to his riches. But the most ordinary cause of a single life is liberty, especially in certain selfpleasing and humorous minds, which are so sensible of every restraint, as they will go near to think their girdles and garters to be bonds and shackles. Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants; but not...
Página 49 - Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and learn whatever he pleases, and as much as he pleases ; he will never know anything of it, except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his own mind. Is it then saying too much if I say that man, by thinking only, becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains ?— festtdozzi.
Página 142 - With yielding hand, That feels him still, yet to his furious course Gives way, you, now retiring, following now Across the stream, exhaust his idle rage; Till floating broad upon his breathless side, And to his fate abandon'd, to the shore You gaily drag your unresisting prize.
Página 202 - If you your lips would keep from slips, Five things observe with care: Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how and when and where.